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People
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Offices
Jobs
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$20M
1 round on record
Latest round
$20M
Series A · Apr 2026 · 5 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
16
open roles
Backers
4
500 Global, BMW i Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
5 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 30 Raised a round Series A $20M · BetaKit Jun 24, 2024 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Run any Llama model finetune and more, instantly 2023 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.34%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Launched on Hacker News
7 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A Apr 2026 $20M — BetaKit
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How Featherless hires

Truth index
C 60/100
Median time to fill
7 days
Ghost roles
75%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Featherless scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 16 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 75% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 7 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Featherless is a serverless AI inference platform that makes tens of thousands of open-source AI models instantly available through a single API. Learn about our team, our research roots, and our $20M Series A.

News

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News AI Market Watch 5 months ago
Featherless.ai raises $20M Series A for serverless open-source inference platform
Featherless.ai raised $20M Series A co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures to scale its serverless inference platform for open-source AI models.
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News The SaaS News 5 months ago
Featherless.ai Raises $20M Series A
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News TheOutpost.ai 5 months ago
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News Pulse 2.0 5 months ago
Featherless: $20 Million Raised To Scale Open-Source AI Infrastructure Platform
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News analyticsinme 5 months ago
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Featherless.ai, a Singapore co-founded AI firm, has raised $20 million in funding co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures to scale its AI innovation.
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News SiliconANGLE 6 months ago
Featherless.ai pulls in $20M to scale serverless hosting for open-source AI models
Featherless.ai pulls in $20M to scale serverless hosting for open-source AI models - SiliconANGLE
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News BetaKit 6 months ago
Canadian co-founded Featherless AI secures $20 million USD to build open-source AI infrastructure
The company can deploy more than 30,000 open-source AI models through a single API.
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News the Guardian 1 year ago
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Featherless over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
38
Postings analysed
19
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
Python32%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch47%
JAX21%
ROCm21%
Transformers16%
Cloud & platforms
OpenAI32%
vLLM21%
arXiv16%
Hugging Face11%
AI & ML
LLM21%
ChatGPT16%
Claude16%
LoRA11%
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Full Featherless tech stack 38 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$190k
Typical range
$54k – $240k
Open positions
3
1 Jobs
Middle 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 1 $190k $190k
Highest paying role Founding Account Executive (AI Cloud) $240k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
42/100
Stable
Open positions
16
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
7 days
faster than 80% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
10/27/2026
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
78% ▼
Operations
11% ▼
Solutions
11% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added PEFT to stack Sep 2026
Added TensorRT-LLM to stack Sep 2026
Added SGLang to stack Sep 2026
Added LoRA to stack Sep 2026
Added Kubernetes to stack Sep 2026
Added Hugging Face to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco United States
HQ
2 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales, Operations
717 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, US
seen since Aug 2026 company site, job postings

Jobs

$150k – $190k per year · Remote (United States, Canada) · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Atlanta · Tampa · Miami · Orlando · Ottawa
Python
LoRA
vLLM
Quantization
SGLang
TensorRT
PEFT
TensorRT-LLM
LLM
OpenAI
Hugging Face
ROCm
KV Cache
DevOps
Kubernetes
Apply
Remote (location not specified) · Full-Time
Python
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
FSDP
arXiv
Machine Learning
Apply
Remote (location not specified) · Full-Time
Python
JAX
NLP
Transfer Learning
PyTorch
Tokenization
Apply
Hybrid · Full-Time
JAX
Transformers
PyTorch
arXiv
Machine Learning
Apply
Remote (location not specified) · Full-Time · PhD
Quantization
Knowledge Distillation
Transformers
PyTorch
arXiv
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
Apply
Remote (location not specified) · Full-Time
Python
vLLM
Quantization
TensorRT
PyTorch
CUDA
Triton
ROCm
ONNX Runtime
Speculative Decoding
KV Cache
Machine Learning
Apply
Hybrid · Full-Time
Fine-tuning
JAX
Transformers
PyTorch
Machine Learning
Apply
Remote (location not specified) · Full-Time
Quantization
JAX
Knowledge Distillation
PyTorch
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
Apply
Remote (location not specified) · Full-Time
vLLM
Quantization
TensorRT
PyTorch
LLM
CUDA
Triton
ROCm
ONNX Runtime
Speculative Decoding
KV Cache
Machine Learning
Apply
Hybrid · Full-Time
DeepSpeed
PyTorch
Megatron-LM
FSDP
Apply
Remote (location not specified) · Full-Time · 3+ years exp
Python
Spark
Fine-tuning
Embeddings
Knowledge Distillation
NLP
LLM
Ray
Tokenization
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$20M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2026 $20M Details